disarming

disarm | American Dictionary

disarm
verb
us/dɪsˈɑrm/

disarmverb (REMOVE WEAPONS)

[ I/T ]
to take weapons away from someone, or give up weapons:
[ T ]Store security guards disarmed him and held him for the police.
[ I ]The revolutionary group refused to disarm.
[ T ]Bomb experts disarmed the device (= made it unable to explode).

disarmverb (CHARM)

[ T ]
to make someone begin to like you, esp. unexpectedly:
He was disarmed by the older man’s wit and intelligence.

Examples of disarm

disarm
The women's unshaken determination to enter public space despite the brouhaha of 1889 seems to have disarmed attacks.
What is more disarming than theatre?
Like previous agreements, it failed to fully appreciate the basin-wide scope of the security challenge, and therefore to establish an appropriate basin-wide mechanism for disarming and demobilising armed groups.
His disarming kindness, great charm, and total lack of conventionalism were combined with a strong sense of responsibility from which we younger colleagues had much to learn.
They are likely to emphasise that militias have disarmed, that commerce and farming are picking up, and that former warlords now serve in the army or have been jailed.
Secondly, how are elections to be held unless these armed bands in the south of the country are disarmed?
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
Talks with these rebels must be confined to the objective of disarming them.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
The question is by what means he may be disarmed.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
In recent years, it has been progressively disarmed.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
When he charges the unilateralist disarmed, he is perfectly entitled to be as opposed to them as he likes, but he must not libel them.
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